Volume 68 · 773
Public Law 83–633
To amend title 28, United States Code, to permit the registration of Judgments in or from the District Court for the Territory of Alaska.
Approved August 23, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 28, United States Code, to permit the registration of Judgments in or from the District Court for the Territory of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1963 of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Registration of judgments.
“A judgment in an action for the recovery of money or property now or hereafter entered in any district court which has become final by appeal or expiration of time for appeal may be registered in any other district by filing therein a certified copy of such judgment. A judgment so registered shall have the same effect as a judgment of the district court of the district where registered and may be enforced in like manner.
“A certified copy of the satisfaction of any judgment in whole or in part may be registered in like manner in any district in which the judgment is a lien.
“For the purpose of this section only, ‘district’ as used herein shall include the Territory of Alaska, and ‘district court’ as used herein shall include the District Court for the Territory of Alaska.”
Approved August 23, 1954.